It's 9AM
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot control.
This.
This is the hardest part for anyone.
This is why we need meditation.
Daily.
Because for most of us, control is all we got.
And when things go out of whack, we get discombobulated.
Cattywumpus.
There are two things that are certain.
Taxes and Death.
Uncle Sam is going to get his, and the Grim Reaper waits for no one.
So those two things are two worries off the list.
You’re going to pay taxes, and one day, hopefully a long time from now, you are going to die.
Let us add two more certainties to the list.
Two more set in stone statements that will hereafter be known as “four things are certain.”
Traffic.
There are four things in life that are certain.
Taxes, Death and Traffic. (number four in a moment)
We live twelve minutes from downtown Little Rock, which the brain trust at the Arkansas Department of Transportation has cut off from civilization.
In their infinite DOT wisdom, they began construction on every major Interstate into and out of the city at the same time.
Add to it, a confusing concrete ribbon of engineering nightmare and you have a twelve minute drive turned into forty minutes for two hours every morning and two hours every evening.
When you add “drivers” to that mix, it makes you long for AI driven cars as a Federal Law by 2022.
While your Congress is arguing over which bridge to nowhere we’re going to build next year, the real issue is taking the lack of control in traffic away from stupid drivers.
And in traffic, that’s the majority of them.
Doing things like, driving 90mph in a 40 zone, because they need to be one car ahead of the next one.
Or lane hopping just because.
AI takes all that dumb decision making out of the hands of the driver and puts it in a satellite.
Now, all the people who learned to drive by playing Grand Theft Auto can’t do stupid things that mess it up for the rest of us.
All the cars are going all the same speed with a close approximation of the exact same distance between them.
Robot cars will know what a zipper merge is and can perform it.
AI will have accidents, that’s for sure. But will they have more accidents than ID 10 T drivers?
Let’s turn them loose and find out.
If it doesn’t work, then we can go back to the old fashioned way of making the wrecks and crashes ourselves without the help of the bots.
Four things are certain.
Taxes, Traffic, Death and Stupid Politicians.
We talked about Afghanistan, but not the clusterFudge at the Kabul airport.
Because it needs no explaining.
There’s traffic there too, a bottleneck of people who don’t want to be lined up against a wall and shot.
If you’ve ever uttered the phrase, “I wouldn’t have let the Nazi’s round up Jews and kill them all,” or “I would have done something,” look no further than to what’s being allowed to happen in a country half a world away.
The Taliban is committing genocide, and we’re treating them like they deserve a seat at the table.
I’d offer a solution, but if lining up women, children and people who worked with Americans over the last twenty years to kill them, is wrong, then wiping the earth of the Taliban must be wrong too.
My solution can’t be what they are using.
The best I can offer is to bring them all to America. Put them in Arkansas. Pine Bluff has got room.
Track, tax and Americanize them.
Leave the Taliban to the caves and poppy fields and billions of dollars in precious metals to mine that we need in the next century.
Isn’t Statecraft hard?
Figuring out how to navigate the tricky waters of a global economy when the man across the table makes you want to sick up. Or worse.
That’s why we have politicians, like Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich, who decided they needed to go to Kabul to see what was happening on the ground.
They hauled their aids and entourages over to what is, in effect, a war zone and plopped into the middle of it.
Why?
So they could get a photo op for reelection.
That’s right, your tax dollars funded their charter plane, their trip, and their campaign stunt.
Don’t worry though. These two Samaritans had a plane full of empty seats, so they could have brought people in need back with them, right?
Ha!
You expect a politician to do something nice and good like that?
Nope.
Just remember when you HAVE TO pay taxes, that this kind of idiocy is what it’s going to cover.
I would suggest writing to them, but I’m not sure they can read.
Traffic. Taxes. Politicians. Death.
The four horsemen of certainty.
The only things in life you will never escape.
· Become a Superfan! Support us by joining our fan club. Your membership helps us keep the good news flowing!
Listen to DARWIN’S RULE for FREE!
Silver Spells: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel FREE
A Game of Lies (Hannah Vogel Novels Book 3) FREE
Movie Club Mysteries: Books 1-3 FREE
And
Love reading American people's views on your politicians